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WALLY FILES: Wally Joyner, the Angels’ top...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Davan Maharaj
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WALLY FILES: Wally Joyner, the Angels’ top run producer this season, filed for free agency Monday (C1). . . . The 29-year-old first baseman wants to gauge his value in the baseball market, though the Angels still hope to re-sign him. . . . “If I was a free agent, I’d check it out,” said Angels exec Whitey Herzog, but he added: “I think ballplayers who live in (Southern California) don’t realize how nice they’ve got it here. The weather is great, there’s no rain and no doubleheaders.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Davan Maharaj

As editor of the Los Angeles Times Media Group from 2011-17, Davan Maharaj oversaw the largest daily newsgathering organization in the West.

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